Raspberry House Blues SummaryLinda Holeman

Raspberry House Blues Summary

The quest motif in Raspberry House Blues is to find the birth mother who had given up her newborn daughter in a Winnipeg hospital. Poppy, sixteen, emotionally rejects Denise, the mother who had adopted her, and flies from Canada's west coast to the center of Canada where she stays in a raspberry-colored house with her adoptive, now remarried father. Poppy brings her "M" book which contains pictures, cut from magazines, of women Poppy...